Research Question: How does it affect the schools? Contributed by: Tory Waldeisen
The first article I read was titled How A Single Change in School Funding Could Unleash Massive Educational Reform by Link Byfield. Link was talking about the school systems in America and Canada and how the prices for funding in the schools have risen over the past years since Byfield was in school. Private schools, which use to be more expensive than regular schools are now half the price of what a public school is. Byfield is also giving his solution to what he thinks is an overpaid school funding. He thinks that cutting off the money supply to the schools board and the school itself. I don't agree with Link's ideas with cutting off the schools supply of money. Our schools need money to fund our extra curricular activities such as sports and clubs. How would sports and clubs get money for the necessities? In order to attempt to keep kids out of trouble and illicit activities, you need to keep the kids from being bored. In order to keep them from being bored, you need to have activities for children to do such as a sport or a club. Having a club and keeping up with it costs money, and nothing is cheap.
The second article I read was School Funding, Taxes, and Economic Growth: An Analysis of the 50 States by the National Education Association. This article talks about each of the 50 states and how much funding they get. I picked this article because in the beginning of the article they talk about how the schools do not need as much money as they get from the state to fund the extra curricular activities. Though I do agree that the schools get a bit of money, I feel as if they just don't know where to spend the money. It is hard to divide it up evenly because each club/sport needs as much money as the next club. I feel as though the people are too critical when it comes to after school programs. I have never heard anyone say that their school ha"too much to do".
This article talks about where the money comes from, where it is distributed, and how it effects the students and teachers. It talks about how the funding needs to go to certain places, such as scholorships and grants. For this article, there isn't anything to really agree or disagree with. It was interesting though, the different places that the school system needs to distribute the money to. The No Child Left Behind Act forces the money to be distributed evenly to some specified areas in the school system. They talk about how the funding effects teachers and students. The teachers, depending on how much money they have, can bring their students on various field trips and can get a lot more books needed for the classroom. It effects the students because in order for students to have an effective learning environment, they need technological advancements, such as computers and calculators if you are doing math.
In this article, they are talking about how school funding is a scam to keep children from learning correctly. Back in the 1960's, it was a lot cheaper to get the same education that we are getting now a days. This article is also calling out the teaching unions, stating that they expect too much and aren't giving enough to help the students. I don't know much about this situation, and this is the first time I've heard of everything being a scam, but I do not agree with the fact that we are learning the same way we were back in the 1960's. We have different technology now a days that helps us to improve drastically from the past. I also don't think that the school funding is a scam to make the children not learn as well, I just think that the school systems need to come up with a good plan to help make everyone compromise in a way where everyone will be happy.
This article wasn't like all of the other articles. In this article, it is a specific example of what happens to schools when they don't have enough money to support their school. In this school, Park School, an astonishing amount of things were cut. Things such as a reduced staff by half, and a cooking staff reduced by half. They eliminated all of the middle schools extra curricular activities and sports. I was shocked when I read the list of things that were cut! I can't believe that it ended with all of the stuff cut. If you would like to see the full list you can go to the link below. I would think that a school system would try and figure something out to try and keep from all of these things happening.
Contributed by: Tory Waldeisen
The first article I read was titled How A Single Change in School Funding Could Unleash Massive Educational Reform by Link Byfield. Link was talking about the school systems in America and Canada and how the prices for funding in the schools have risen over the past years since Byfield was in school. Private schools, which use to be more expensive than regular schools are now half the price of what a public school is. Byfield is also giving his solution to what he thinks is an overpaid school funding. He thinks that cutting off the money supply to the schools board and the school itself. I don't agree with Link's ideas with cutting off the schools supply of money. Our schools need money to fund our extra curricular activities such as sports and clubs. How would sports and clubs get money for the necessities? In order to attempt to keep kids out of trouble and illicit activities, you need to keep the kids from being bored. In order to keep them from being bored, you need to have activities for children to do such as a sport or a club. Having a club and keeping up with it costs money, and nothing is cheap.
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=1&hid=103&sid=4ed7e991-6e7a-450c-af74-ea136ae97c5a%40sessionmgr106
The second article I read was School Funding, Taxes, and Economic Growth: An Analysis of the 50 States by the National Education Association. This article talks about each of the 50 states and how much funding they get. I picked this article because in the beginning of the article they talk about how the schools do not need as much money as they get from the state to fund the extra curricular activities. Though I do agree that the schools get a bit of money, I feel as if they just don't know where to spend the money. It is hard to divide it up evenly because each club/sport needs as much money as the next club. I feel as though the people are too critical when it comes to after school programs. I have never heard anyone say that their school ha"too much to do".
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This article talks about where the money comes from, where it is distributed, and how it effects the students and teachers. It talks about how the funding needs to go to certain places, such as scholorships and grants. For this article, there isn't anything to really agree or disagree with. It was interesting though, the different places that the school system needs to distribute the money to. The No Child Left Behind Act forces the money to be distributed evenly to some specified areas in the school system. They talk about how the funding effects teachers and students. The teachers, depending on how much money they have, can bring their students on various field trips and can get a lot more books needed for the classroom. It effects the students because in order for students to have an effective learning environment, they need technological advancements, such as computers and calculators if you are doing math.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Social_and_Cultural_Foundations_of_American_Education/Second_Edition/20.1.13_Wildcard
In this article, they are talking about how school funding is a scam to keep children from learning correctly. Back in the 1960's, it was a lot cheaper to get the same education that we are getting now a days. This article is also calling out the teaching unions, stating that they expect too much and aren't giving enough to help the students. I don't know much about this situation, and this is the first time I've heard of everything being a scam, but I do not agree with the fact that we are learning the same way we were back in the 1960's. We have different technology now a days that helps us to improve drastically from the past. I also don't think that the school funding is a scam to make the children not learn as well, I just think that the school systems need to come up with a good plan to help make everyone compromise in a way where everyone will be happy.
http://home.att.net/~pcbworks/TandI.html
This article wasn't like all of the other articles. In this article, it is a specific example of what happens to schools when they don't have enough money to support their school. In this school, Park School, an astonishing amount of things were cut. Things such as a reduced staff by half, and a cooking staff reduced by half. They eliminated all of the middle schools extra curricular activities and sports. I was shocked when I read the list of things that were cut! I can't believe that it ended with all of the stuff cut. If you would like to see the full list you can go to the link below. I would think that a school system would try and figure something out to try and keep from all of these things happening.
http://www.weac.org/News/2006-07/may07/parkfalls.htm
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